英语词汇“to ram home”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

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to ram home.

a. To force (a charge, etc.) into a firearm with a ramrod or other device, as far as possible (see sense 3d and cf. home adv. 4b); (more generally) to force or propel (something) into the place intended for it, or as far as possible into an opening or container.

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society > armed hostility > military equipment > operation and use of weapons > action of propelling missile > discharge of firearms > fire (a gun) [verb (transitive)] > load or prime (a gun) > ram

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1627 J. Smith Sea Gram. xiv. 66 A Rammer is a bob of wood..to ramme home the Powder.

1800 Naval Chron. 4 54 Muzzle the searcher, and ram it home in the gun.

1879 Man. Siege & Garrison Artillery Exercises 53 These wads are to be rammed home separately after the projectiles.

1914 J. M. Barrie Admirable Crichton ii. 80 He pushes the precious document into a soda-water bottle, and rams the cork home.

1948 Times 12 June 2/5 Paish rammed it [sc. the ball] home for his service with the set at 7—5.

1990 Amateur Gardening 3 Nov. 15/1 We used to ram home soil-based potting composts but now all-peat composts are only very lightly firmed.

1994 B. A. Staples Parallel Time xi. 230 I often placed the bullet into the breech, but never had the nerve to ram it home.

b. In extended use: to stress forcefully (an argument, etc.); to drive home (an advantage).

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1899 Times 27 Dec. 8/1 If he had a lesson to teach, he rammed it home to his audience.

1928 W. S. Churchill Let. 15 Apr. in W. S. Churchill & C. S. Churchill Speaking for Themselves (1999) xiii. 322 At the end of the week I go up to Newcastle for a big public meeting in order to ram home the policy in a great industrial centre.

1960 C. Day Lewis Buried Day ii. 44 He rattled [on] about it in the pulpit, at times leaning..over the edge of it to ram home a doctrinal point.

2000 D. Adebayo My Once upon Time (2001) v. 110 I'd been late for her so she'd be tardy too to ram home the point that time costs money.

单词	to ram home
释义	> as lemmas to ram home Phrases to ram home. a. To force (a charge, etc.) into a firearm with a ramrod or other device, as far as possible (see sense 3d and cf. home adv. 4b); (more generally) to force or propel (something) into the place intended for it, or as far as possible into an opening or container. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > operation and use of weapons > action of propelling missile > discharge of firearms > fire (a gun) [verb (transitive)] > load or prime (a gun) > ram ram1598 to ram home1627 1627 J. Smith Sea Gram. xiv. 66 A Rammer is a bob of wood..to ramme home the Powder. 1800 Naval Chron. 4 54 Muzzle the searcher, and ram it home in the gun. 1879 Man. Siege & Garrison Artillery Exercises 53 These wads are to be rammed home separately after the projectiles. 1914 J. M. Barrie Admirable Crichton ii. 80 He pushes the precious document into a soda-water bottle, and rams the cork home. 1948 Times 12 June 2/5 Paish rammed it [sc. the ball] home for his service with the set at 7—5. 1990 Amateur Gardening 3 Nov. 15/1 We used to ram home soil-based potting composts but now all-peat composts are only very lightly firmed. 1994 B. A. Staples Parallel Time xi. 230 I often placed the bullet into the breech, but never had the nerve to ram it home. b. In extended use: to stress forcefully (an argument, etc.); to drive home (an advantage). ΚΠ 1899 Times 27 Dec. 8/1 If he had a lesson to teach, he rammed it home to his audience. 1928 W. S. Churchill Let. 15 Apr. in W. S. Churchill & C. S. Churchill Speaking for Themselves (1999) xiii. 322 At the end of the week I go up to Newcastle for a big public meeting in order to ram home the policy in a great industrial centre. 1960 C. Day Lewis Buried Day ii. 44 He rattled [on] about it in the pulpit, at times leaning..over the edge of it to ram home a doctrinal point. 2000 D. Adebayo My Once upon Time (2001) v. 110 I'd been late for her so she'd be tardy too to ram home the point that time costs money. extracted from ramv.¹ < as lemmas
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